Born in Houston, Texas, on November 9, 1972, Carolyn Wonderland née Bradford is
an American blues guitarist and singer. She developed an early love of the
guitar and the music of Janis Joplin, Townes Van Zandt and Stevie Ray Vaughan,
and began performing on local stages as a teenager. She gradually developed her
electric style, blending blues, country, zydeco and rock with her band The
Imperial Monkeys, who recorded the studio albums Play with Matches (1995) and
Bursting with Flavor (1997). After settling in Austin in 1999, Carolyn
Wonderland lived out of her van and criss-crosse...